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JAMES R. WEHN

1929 GIRARD AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55403
PHONE 612-384-9382 • E-MAIL JAMESWEHN@COMCAST.NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

[ 2008 ] Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Minneapolis, MN
Assistant Curator for Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art

• Curatorial and management duties of the Thrivent Financial private corporate art collection. Collection includes 800+ prints and drawings, all religious subject matter, that are stored, maintained, and exhibited primarily in the Thrivent corporate building in Minneapolis, MN. Duties include management support for the collection, as well as development and research for in-house and loaned exhibitions with interpretive materials.

EDUCATION

[ 2006-Present ] The University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
M.A. (in progress), Art History, University of St. Thomas

[ 1988-1992 ] Webster University, St. Louis, MO
B.F.A., Webster University, cum laude

EXHIBITIONS

[ 2009 ]
Co-Curator of Modern Impressions: Color and Expression in Twentieth-Century Prints
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Corporate Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

• Partial development and curatorial responsibility, including extended labels and text panels for an exhibition of prints by artists associated with European art movements including Les XX, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, Bauhaus, and Grosvenor School. Works by Lovis Corinth, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, and Georges Rouault, also featured.

[ 2008 ]

Co-Curator of “Made to Fit: The Meaning of Dress in Religious Prints”
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Corporate Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

• Partial development and curatorial duties, including iextended labels and text panels for an exhibition examining historic costume in northern European prints and drawings from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.

Co-Curator of “To Egypt and Back: Stories of Joseph and Moses from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art”
Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN

• Partial development and curatorial duties, including interpretive materials of exhibition loan featuring narrative images of Joseph and Moses in prints from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries.

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the Midwest Art History Society

ACADEMIC HONORS

• 2009-2010 Art History Graduate Department Fellowship, The University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
• Student Representative for University of St. Thomas Art History Department Faculty Search, 2008 and 2009
• 2008-2009 Art History Graduate Department Fellowship, The University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
• Cum Laude, Webster University, St. Louis, MO (undergraduate)

LANGUAGES

• French reading ability

LECTURES

[ 2009 ]

Pilgrimage in Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth-Century Prints
Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

[ 2008 ]

Dürer’s Christian Knight: Arms and Armor in Knight, Death, and the Devil
Thrivent Gallery, Collection of Religious Art, Minneapolis, MN

INVITED LECTURES

[ 2009 ]

Master Impressions: Original Printmaking by Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS